Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Suriname and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pagans,
John Foxx,
Patti Smith,
The Buckinghams,
Suicide,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Deadbeat,
David Axelrod,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Public Enemy,
The Evens,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Soft Cell,
Hardrive,
Rotary Connection,
LL Cool J,
Lightning Bolt,
Minnie Riperton,
The Count Five,
Letta Mbulu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eli Mardock,
Stetsasonic,
Sparks,
Wally Richardson,
OOIOO,
Charles Mingus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Andrew Hill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joyce Sims,
Albert Ayler,
Brick,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sällskapet,
Joe Finger,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cecil Taylor,
Alison Limerick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Drexciya,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Absolute Body Control,
Graham Central Station,
Neu!,
Nico,
Davy DMX,
ABC,
Audionom,
The Gories,
The United States of America,
The Kinks,
Ronan,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erykah Badu,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.